Tag Archives: Leonard Crackett

Since my ancestors on both sides migrated frequently around the mining communities of Northumberland I have often wondered if they bumped into each other on their travels. Today I came across documentary evidence of one such encounter and was intrigued to read a newspaper article about a quoit match involving my great granda from one side and two of my great granduncles from the other side. The Morpeth Herald of Saturday 6 April 1878 reports the results of the Quoit Handicap at Scotland Gate:

The full text of the article can be found here. Leonard Crackett is my paternal great grandfather. Andrew Oliver and Joseph Oliver are the younger brothers of my maternal great great grandmother Mary Oliver. None of my relatives actually won the competition.

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Lynda’s Genealogy

Starting with the Crackett, Webb, Turner and Henderson families of Amble and Radcliffe in Northumberland and finding more names in my pedigree as I dig further back. Where did all these fascinating people come from and how did they make little me?